Best Kilt for Farm work

[timber]

I live on a small farm that I wish to do more with. I would like opinions concerning the best
contemporary kilt for farm work. It would have to stand up to planting, harvesting, pitching manure, and care for livestock. I don't want to subject my tank to that kind of abuse.

[Bugbear]

I live on a very small farm, really a very small, desert orchard converted from a regular plot of land. I have done some of the work in a Buzz Kidder canvas kilt.

If you plan on doing all the work in a kilt, I suggest learning to make a X kilt because eventually you will ruin it, just like jeans or overalls. If you are like me, you wear the work jeans until the butt rips out and can no longer be patched.

I stopped wearing the BZK before I ruined it.

And yes, it is a pleated canvas, man skirt.

[Riverkilt]

Blue Denim Utilikilts Original - if you can find one. Scottish Jeans for sure!

Ron

[SteveB]

Utilikilts Original here. Takes all the abuse I give it whilst tending the garden. Weeding, planting, maintaining the equipment, and whatever else that I try to destroy it with. I wore it when I replaced the roof on the barn a few years back, cargo pockets full of roofing nails on one side, cool beverage on the other.int:

[McClef]

I would think you would need a tartan with lots of brown in it!

[Balaamsass51]

I've used my RKilt working around the house, splitting wood, doing the chickens, etc. Try to stay away from grease, oil. One of those kilt aprons would probably be a good idea.

If I picked up a really inexpensive kilt I'd probably use it more while working outside. Stillwater thrifty for instance.

Matt H.

[Ancienne Alliance]

I believe in Tweed !

It's cheap, indestructible and looks great !







Best,

Robert

[Jerry]

I wear an old Sportkilt (tatan, not contemporary) for feeding our chickens and waterfowl, and our rabbits. I also wear it or my Stillwater economy black kilt for bushhogging and doing other things with the tractor. Both are washable and have stood up well in the last 3 to 4 years since I started wearing them.

[Jock Scot]

Might I advise extreme caution when wearing your kilt around farm machinery.In fact don't do it! Power take off(PTO) shafts in particular are to be watched at all times kilted, or, not. Farm machinery has always been very unforgiving.I have been to all too many funerals of people killed,often in appalling ways, on farms. There is no place, at any time, for a kilt to be worn on a farm whilst working.In the UK there are more deaths and serious injuries in the agricultural industry than ANY other. Even worse than the building and construction industry. I don't suppose it is much different anywhere else in the world.

[Deil the Yin]

Might I advise extreme caution when wearing your kilt around farm machinery.In fact don't do it! Power take off(PTO) shafts in particular are to be watched at all times kilted, or, not. Farm machinery has always been very unforgiving.I have been to all too many funerals of people killed,often in appalling ways, on farms. There is no place, at any time, for a kilt to be worn on a farm whilst working.In the UK there are more deaths and serious injuries in the agricultural industry than ANY other. Even worse than the building and construction industry. I don't suppose it is much different anywhere else in the world.

I don't think a modern agribusiness setting is what our friend has in mind for his farm, ie no heavy machinery, though you are absolutely right about not being too careful around such equipment. It is all too true on this side of the pond as well.

As for what type of kilt, I concur that a tweed kilt would be only too appropriate. My impression is that tweed is indeed a practical material for work out of doors. It will cover most stains and blemishes easily, and as Ancienne Alliance has stated it is very durable. I've also read of ideas about having your aprons interchangeable. One is used to take the brunt of dirt and grime, but can be covered by a clean apron for non-work activities... You could also have a sturdy canvas apron to wear for the really nasty jobs, kind of like cover-alls?

The one concern you might want to consider for tweed is what climate you are in, as I imagine tweed would make a rather warm garment. If you are in any kind of humid climate, wool gets uncomfourtable mighty quick! Another drawback is what you will have to do to clean a tweed kilt? I would think it would have to be hand washed, and if your dirt is as smelly as most farm dirt can be, you might have to wash it more than you care to?

OR... you could have several work-kilts! Haw, haw! Looks like a win-win situation to me!

All together a grande idea I should say- Guid on ye!